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Having 90 cookbooks does not a good cook make. (Julia Child’s “How to Cook” DVD remains in its cellophane wrapper.) A grill, however, helps. I blame my culinary skills on my southern heritage, which also gave me a slight accent, a love for tree-ripened peaches and a penchant for smiling at passersby. Robert Kennedy described DC as a cross between Southern efficiency and Northern hospitality – but the city has its charms. Cities on the water always draw me in – for their beauty rather than water sports. I prefer terra firma for hiking, trying to maintain balance in tree pose, and sharing of stories (campfire optional).
DC also has been a great launching point for periodic adventures with my now 17-year-old daughter including facing spiders the size of a large man’s hands in a cave in the jungles of Belize, and tearing up at the sight of my uncle’s name in the Book of Remembrance for WWII heroes in St. Paul’s Cathedral. Biking over the crest of a hill in the Loire Valley and finding a sea of sunflowers produced a sense of awe that remains to this day.
Such special adventures, however, are more than matched by local living. Great neighbors and friends translate into pre-Thanksgiving potlucks and summer crab feasts, soaking up the sun on the Canal and its rocky trails, and discovering really strange but wonderful art like tiny sculptures constructed in the eye of a needle. Although I pretend I like to garden, I actually hate weeding and the accompanying mosquitoes but I do love that freshly mulched look with mismatched pots filled with wildflowers.
Finally, I also love my age but supposedly people mainly (arbitrarily?) search by round numbers – so, for the record, I’m 51 not 50.
When I parse through all the clutter of what makes a great relationship with a man, I think it’s a mixture of two core things – a solid friendship that is lit by a flame. How one gets there, of course, is the mystery. Whether one’s pheromones continue to slumber or stand up and danc

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